I understand, this is still interesting to read.
Thank you

Kevin P. 

> Il giorno 9 lug 2021, alle ore 20:20, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> 
> Kevin,
>    I don't know how to do that anymore, if I ever did. I've used Jack for 
> years. In general it works for me but it is a bit finicky. 
> 
>    As I say, software plugins in a real-time data path aren't something I 
> ever do anymore. If I really think I need a compressor when recording it's 
> going to be hardware which has its limitations as per that specific hardware 
> device. However careful recording with good levels shouldn't ever be a noise 
> floor issue so I just record softer and boost as necessary. I use Mixbus, the 
> for-pay version of Ardour. I have general workflow templates that make 
> getting set up easy, and frankly I'm recording so seldomly anymore that I'm 
> not even current with much of Linux audio anymore. The alsa-users list used 
> to be a very lively list. Today it's terribly quiet. Probably everyone who 
> could help you is either off in a forum somewhere or winding down like me in 
> retirement.
> 
>    Not sure any of this helps but as I say this list is so quiet I wasn't 
> sure you'd get any answers.
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:03 AM Kevin P <petrilli.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for your kind reply, Mark.
>> The suggestions you gave me are surely helpful, and I will study in
>> deep some of the things you mentioned.
>> I agree with you that applying a compressor as part of post-production
>> would be the most efficient way of having the audio recorded the way I
>> want.
>> I am looking at jack too, i'll eventually install pipewire-jack as I
>> am already running on pipewire, I'll look up for jack-compatible
>> plugins.
>> I'd still like to try implementing this with plain ALSA though, just
>> to learn and experiment with it.
>> Let me know if you know how to do it this way too!
>> 
>> Il giorno ven 9 lug 2021 alle ore 00:17 Mark Knecht
>> <markkne...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 6:27 AM Kevin P <petrilli.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello everyone,
>> > > I own a Scarlett Solo 3rd gen USB audio board, and I would like to use
>> > > a compressor
>> > > plugin from the package "alsa-plugins", Arch Linux. The goal is to
>> > > apply this effect
>> > > to my voice when I'm recording, always.
>> > <SNIP>
>> > >
>> > > I'm not quite sure this is correct, though. The compressor plugin I'd
>> > > like to use is
>> > > named "dysonCompress", it should be shipped with alsa-plugins package.
>> > > I could not
>> > > find documentation I could understand about this.
>> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
>> > >
>> >
>> > In time critical applications like recording vocals you may find the 
>> > latency through software plugins to simply be unacceptable as it can 
>> > really throw off your sense of timing. Most important when recording is to 
>> > not have the technology get in the way of the performance.
>> >
>> > Should you really want to try it live then I would go with Jack and simply 
>> > route the scarlett's output, once inside the machine, through whatever 
>> > compressor you want to try and push the Alsa buffer size down as far as 
>> > you can without creating xruns.
>> >
>> > In my experience though, especially when beginning, I think you're better 
>> > off recording the vocal raw and then applying the compressor after the 
>> > fact in DAW.
>> >
>> > A lot of this depends on your monitoring chain. I Generally find that an 
>> > uncompressed vocal sent through a cheap hardware reverb in the monitor 
>> > chain is a great way to approach the problem of getting a good dry vocal 
>> > on disk. Once the vocal is on disk you can compress it anyway you want. At 
>> > that point it's just numbers.
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Mark
>> >
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